->"'''''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lct6x-XqWrw I'M A VAMPIRE! I'M A VAMPIRE! I'M A VAMPIRE! I'M A VAMPIRE! I'M A VAMPIRE! I'M A VAMPIRE!]]'''''"-->--'''Peter Loew'''

''Vampire's Kiss'' is a 1989 film starring NicolasCage.

Peter Loew is a yuppie literary agent who goes insane. He plays as a businessman by day, and hops clubs picking up women by night. In the opening, Peter sees his therapist, Dr. Glaser, whom he visits frequently, about his sexual conquests. One night, he takes a woman home with him, and a bat gets into his apartment. The experience leaves him feeling sexually excited, something he reports to Dr. Glaser.

Soon after, he meets up with a woman named Rachel in a night club and takes her to his apartment to have sex. However, unknown to Peter, Rachel is a vampire, and while they are having sex, she bites Peter on his neck. After that, he believes that he is turning into a vampire, and consequentially develops a sensitivity to sunlight and can no longer see his reflection. However, although Peter believes his reflection is gone, it's visible to the audience, and although he ''thinks'' he'll burn in the sun, it has no effect on him.

Meanwhile, Peter's secretary, [[Creator/MariaConchitaAlonso Alva Restrepo]], becomes concerned about his mental behavior. Peter torments her by forcing her to search through an enormous file for a 1963 contract. When she fails to find it, he humiliates her. She does everything she can to find this file, but after dealing with his demands for so long, she decides to call in sick to avoid him. It does her no good; he figures out where she lives and takes her back to work. As his madness escalates, he eventually rapes her.

Later, Peter meets with Rachel, who dumps him in a night club. He accuses her of being a vampire, resulting in him being kicked out of the club. In the conclusion, Peter has become one of the crazies of New York, walking in a blood-stained suit, talking to himself, and turning his apartment into a vampire's cave where he hides from the sun by crawling under an upturned sofa. Alva's brother drives a stake through his heart out of vengeance for raping her.

-->''Not to be confused with the SNES game known in Europe as Castlevania: Vampire's Kiss. For that, see VideoGame/CastlevaniaDraculaX.''----!!This film provides examples of:

* ActuallyNotAVampire: You don't say?* AllJustADream: [[spoiler:Rachel, as a vampire, is really a figment of Peter's insane mind. It does appear that there's a real woman named Rachel, although it's ambiguous as to whether or not she knows him as anything other than a one-night stand.]]* AxCrazy: Peter. Possibly also NicolasCage.* BadBoss: Peter obviously. See Below.* BreakTheCutie: Poor, poor Alva. Peter is absolutely horrible to her even before [[spoiler:he rapes her]].* ButtMonkey: Alva.* ChewingtheScenery* CutHimselfShaving: Peter really ''does'' cut himself shaving, but starts to think of the cut as his vampire bite. Him employing this trope when Dr. Glaser asks about the bandage on his neck is a sort of unwitting truth. * CuteLittleFangs: When the fangs that Peter expects to appear fail to do so, he buys a pair of cheap plastic costume fangs from a novelty shop and runs around flashing them.* TheDogBitesBack: After Peter rapes Alva, [[spoiler:she tells her brother, who kills Peter.]]* EpiphanyTherapy: Dr. Glaser, Peter's psychiatrist.* GeorgeJetsonJobSecurity: Alva's [[OfficeLady position at the office]] progressively becomes the job of acting as Peter's personal [[TheChewToy chew toy]] throughout the movie. He flat-out threatens to fire her if she refuses or fails to find a twenty-five-year-old contract, despite her dedication and dependability.* GirlyRun: Seen as Peter runs down the street, screaming, ''"I'M A VAMPIAH! I'M A VAMPIAH! I'M A VAMPIAH!"''* GrossUpCloseUp: There is a close-up of Peter eating a cockroach. To make matters more disturbing, Nicolas Cage actually ate a real cockroach. It took three takes before the scene was finished.** Apparently, that part wasn't actually scripted, and the roach's owner got very angry at Cage for eating it, considering the time and money it took to train.* HolyBurnsEvil: To the point where sunlight or anything cross-shaped causes Peter to scream in pain. Since it's all in his head and he can't die, this goes on for awhile.* LikesOlderWomen: Late in the movie, Peter calls Dr. Glaser at night. She is wearing an alluring night gown, with a shirtless young man in his 20s.* LooksLikeOrlok: Nicolas Cage does a rather impressive physical impression of [[Film/{{Nosferatu}} Count Orlok]] in one of the later scenes in the movie, before assaulting a young woman at a nightclub.* MadnessMantra: Check the page quote. * MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: This is sort of an overall theme with this movie, since [[spoiler: it's never explicitly stated whether or not Peter is really a vampire (although there are several clues that he probably isn't).]]** A bit more ambiguously [[spoiler:whether or not Rachel is a vampire. That she is, but Peter is merely a VampireVannabe, is a possible interpretation.]]* MindRape: When Rachel bit Peter, it apparently drove him insane. [[spoiler: Or not. He showed signs of descending into psychosis even before he was bitten.]]* [[TrailersAlwaysLie Posters Always Lie]]: Despite what the various posters might indicate, this is ''NOT'' a romantic comedy, but a somewhat disturbing psychological thriller in the vein of ''AmericanPsycho''.* OurVampiresAreDifferent: [[spoiler: It is apparent, as the movie progresses, that vampires are not real in the world of the movie. Peter, however, seems to fully believe in the most common vampire tropes.]]** Well, not exactly. [[spoiler: While Peter very obviously isn't one, the existence of vampires as a whole is left ambiguous. Rachel could either be a real vampire or simply a delusional fantasy. She even has a conspiratorial smirk when Peter is thrown out of a club]].* ThePowerOfLove: By the end of the movie, Peter believes that true love is the only thing that can cure his psychosis. He tells this to a statue in downtown New York City, although he thinks he's talking to his therapist.* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: As Peter's mental state gets worse, you're shown his hallucinations.* RapeDiscretionShot: [[spoiler:When Peter rapes Alva, all we are shown is him pinning her to the ground and tearing her blouse a little.]]* TheRenfield: Peter to Rachel. He even eats a cockroach.* SanitySlippage: Peter.* SatelliteLoveInterest: Invoked and later subverted with Peter's imaginary girlfriend Sharon. At first, he imagines her to be his perfect match, but by the time he gets back to his apartment, he's screaming at her for asking about his vampire-phase before telling her to leave.* VampireVannabe: Peter to the point where he wants someone to stake him.* VampiresAreSexGods: Rachel is apparently quite voracious in bed. Even a bat seems to arouse Peter.* VillainProtagonist* ''WhatTheHellIsThatAccent'': Peter's weird high-class accent seems to soften depending on who he's talking to.** Sounds like a mix of [[BillAndTedsExcellentAdventure Ted Theodore Logan]] and [[AmericanPsycho Patrick Bateman]].* WeakenedByTheLight: Not so much weakened as pushed into the final stages of delusion. * WondrousLadiesRoom: At one point, Peter chases Alva into the women's restroom, revealing a very posh environment for nature's business.----